Lai Mohammed, minister of information, has asked Senate President Bukola
Saraki to stop dancing on the graves of victims of the Offa robbery
incident.
Mohammed said this while reacting to a comment credited to Saraki’s aide.
The minister had asked Saraki, who said he donated a sum of N10 million to the victims, not to play politics with the incident.
Thereafter,
Yusuph Olaniyonu, media aide to the senate, said Mohammed known to be
an “unrestrained and compulsive perjurer” only commented on the incident
to score cheap political points.
But the minster said the claim by the senate president that he donated the sum for the care of the robbery victims is false.
“Instead
of stopping at that, which in itself constitutes an acceptance of
wrong-doing, Dr. Saraki went ahead to hurl insults at me, even when I
have been largely restrained in issuing my earlier warning,” Mohammed
said.
“Had I not been restrained, I would have gone ahead to
divulge what actually transpired. For example, the claim by Dr. Saraki
that he donated 10 million Naira to care for the
victims of the Offa robbery is patently false.
“He
did not! The 10 million he referred to was donated when the Offa market
got burnt, and it was made in Ilorin, not Offa. When Dr Saraki visited
Offa to commiserate with the community in the aftermath of the robbery,
he did not donate a dime! I challenge him to prove me wrong.
“But
with politics in the air, the truth becomes the first casualty.
Realising that he goofed, Dr. Bukola apparently caused the radio
interview in question to be edited to remove the donation reference, and
then re-aired. Is it not
an irony that the people who engaged in this egregious act of dishonesty are the same ones calling others names?
“The
people of Kwara, who are bone-tired of the long years of ‘bolekaja’
governance in the state, are all saying in one voice, ‘O to ge’ (enough
is enough), and will soon have
the opportunity to express their frustration with their votes.”
In April, not less than 20 persons were killed
after armed robbers invaded Offa and raided
banks.
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